The indirect links between perceived mothers’ and fathers’
autonomous-accepting parenting and future orientation were examined in a mediational
model consisting of five steps: perceived mothers’ and fathers’
autonomous-accepting parenting, self-evaluation, and the motivational, cognitive
representation, and behavioural components of future orientation. Empirical
estimates were carried out by LISREL on data collected from 458 (224 girls) Israeli
Jewish adolescents (11th graders) regarding two prospective life domains: career and
family. These estimates showed a good fit between the theoretical model and four
domain-by-gender estimates (girls’ and boys’ career, and
girls’ and boys’ family). Similar to recent findings, only few
gender differences were found; particularly, girls scored higher on the motivational
component applied to career (counter-hypothesis) and on all three components applied
to prospective family. Discussion highlighted the pivotal functions of
self-evaluation in linking between perceived parenting and the motivational
component, and of the motivational component in linking between self-evaluation and
the cognitive and behavioural components.
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